Beaver [he/him]

Oh hell yeah, this runs on real hardware

Giving Super Mario World a break to instead play some Donkey Kong Country. I need to play the sequels sometime too.

I normally buy the console day-one so that I have a version that supports the inevitable hardware security weaknesses… but the price makes me knees weak instead.

It did a great job with lots of particles and shit flying around during gunfights.

The pinnacle of the series for many reasons, one was that there was a sense of progression in the battle as the map got more and more demolished. The final few tickets of the game are always fought among rubble and the stumps of downed trees.

Still playing SNES romhacks, they’re some of the best options for a quick 5 minute session between taking care of the baby.

I’m glad you found some positive enjoyment out of it. Thinking about my other comment about Halo LAN multiplayer, I think the key thing that we loved about these experiences was that we spent time with our loved ones and friends, and in particular were joking and laughing with them.

Most of the mainstream TV of that era was astonishingly shitty and mean-spirited. I was really into watching 24, which in retrospect is one of the worst television shows to ever shoot out of a cathode ray tube.

The single player campaign is some of the lowest pulp military sci fi out there. But the couch multiplayer was top-notch, and brought me together with a lot of other friends in-person. I think Halo 2’s online multiplayer was the beginning of the end, though - a lot of those guys I haven’t seen in person since literally 2004.

I usually drink it room temperature, but it’s best ice cold.

Just some Super Mario World here and there.

Civ6 is great, and this is a good time to get into it because it’s now a more “finished” game with a lot of the weird early issues ironed out. But it definitely takes a lot of noodling around to figure out how all the gears mesh together - it’s almost like you have to try out just a certain aspect of the game during each of your early play-throughs just to understand how certain mechanics work.

Aside from their controllers, the bluetooth adaptors for classic consoles are also very nice. I find that a lot of classic console controllers cramp my hands, so I’m very happy to use a Pro 2 or a dualshock controller with my old consoles.

I’ve had some technical issues with mine, almost like intermittent super drift (it will occasionally start drifting really hard to the left). When it does work, it’s nice, it’s probably the best of the replacement joysticks. It’s not quite as good as the standard stick when doing very small precise movements (e.g., aiming in perfect dark, or walking with mario, or doing a medium punch in smash). But it’s far better than a lot of the previous replacement joysticks. I do think it’s worth trying out, and having on hand for the future when every n64 joystick has finally bitten the dust.

I think the best approach is still just to open up and grease up the bowl of a regular joystick, and then to maintain a schedule of re-greasing (doesn’t need to be crazy, like every 200 hours or so).

It wasn’t a single day, but maybe over the course of a few months. So probably the latter.

I was hung up on someone for like ten years, but there was eventually a sharp dropoff in hung-up-ness. It was surprising to me that it happened, it felt like it was going to be a life-long thing. Living your life is the best thing you can do.

Yeah, I play Cyberia

It’s crazy how the subscription based multiplayer on consoles is less reliable than the free multiplayer we get on PC

I’m sad that there’s only a very narrow window of ages where people had the brain plasticity to master the controls and could really appreciate that game. If you’re too young or too old, it’s actually unplayable. For those lucky few, it was absolutely incredible. Split Screen GoldenEye in 1999 was just off the wall crazy fun.

The first time a fast zombie attacks you in Ravenholm is the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me in a video game.